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Nvidia's NemoClaw aims to make OpenClaw agents more secure.
OpenClaw agents are highly capable, but come with risks.
The company also launched a multi-lab open-source model coalition.
"What's your OpenClaw strategy?" Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang asked rhetorically to the crowd at Nvidia GTC, the company's annual AI conference, on Monday.
The company is full steam ahead on AI agents -- and it's hoping its latest release can fix OpenClaw's security problem. During the keynote, Huang announced Nvidia's new NemoClaw stack, which is built to shore up the OpenClaw agent platform, the viral open-source assistant framework that has impressed users with its autonomous capabilities.
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OpenClaw does not run its own model; what sets it apart is how it leverages the sometimes-differing strengths of Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT, while running locally on a user's device to take action on its own. That level of autonomous capability and access to user information also poses a significant security risk, which has been its primary drawback.
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